Jack Murphy

Corporal Charles House led his Marine Recon patrol through thick undergrowth under the jungle canopy forty feet above. The country was Vietnam and the year was 1968. Team Dublin City had been inserted three days prior, North of Phu Bai to reconnoiter the area for signs of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army troop buildups, with a […]

People have been asking me for years to write a book about myself, something I resisted doing for a long time. I always figured I was a little to young for that (now at the ripe old age of 34) and also thought that I wouldn’t have much to say. After meeting with a publisher […]

It was early afternoon on October 11th, 2016 when TigerSwan’s program manager, retired Delta Force Sergeant Major John Porter, met with Silverton’s owner, Carl Clifton, inside a hangar at the Mandan Municipal Airport. The hangar was initially used by Silverton security as a clandestine office for their intelligence cell that collected information on the protesters, […]

Former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier Jack Murphy stood in the basement of a corner building in Belgrade, Serbia and stared at a “death ray.” At least, a drawing of one. The sketch, pulled from a shelf in an environmentally controlled room, was buried in row after row of documents — some never before seen […]

In recent months, the behavior of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein and the allegations made against him by dozens of women has taken America by storm and set off a chain reaction of women coming forward to speak about workplace sexual assault, sexual harassment, and the boys club that perpetuates this type of bad behavior. While […]

When many Americans woke up one morning in October to discover that two US Special Forces soldiers and one support soldier were killed in an ambush in Niger, they were incredulous. Why are American troops in Niger? How is Niger important to the United States strategically? How could our highly trained Special Forces soldiers be killed […]